In Vowels^x, Glottals^x

Hi Bluealbatross, I live near Newcastle, and answered your similar question in the thread entitled: "Received pronunciation and mid Atlantic English" ...but I've pasted it here in case anyone wants to continue on this thread: I don't think I'd recommend learning the Newcastle accent...

I don't think I'd recommend learning the Newcastle accent if you want to learn a British regional accent. Its often reckoned to be one of the most difficult of accents to understand - not only for non British, but for many British themselves! There are both vowel and consonant sounds that are...

The glottal stop is used in American English, yes, but not in the same places, necessarily, as for British English. It's used (for some speakers) just before the final unreleased "t" when "t" is final after a vowel. "That's it!" (The final "t" is rendered by a glottal stop and/or an...

...Tony Blair, raised in Durham & Scotland, sounding like a posh Londoner... Blair has at least three accents: A) Generic south-east England with a very faint whiff of ?Edinburgh. Note the odd short vowels, though: the 'i' in 'it' replaced by the 'e' in the first syllable of 'because', for...

Me, too. As noted already, if is pronounced (it isn't always pronounced, though: dialect variation), then "a" is used. (Note, the symbols represent letters, and the symols represent sounds.) => a igh school If isn't pronounced, then another consonant is provided, notable the in "an",...

Hi all Ok, today's question is.. do you (as a native English speaker) make distinction between syllables when you speak a word? You know.. like.. first syllable, then second one and so on. How do you know where one syllable starts and ends? What I mean by that is... do you make conscious,...